Top Israeli officials surprised everyone today when they revealed that the Palestinian Authority had offered new peace talks without their usual precondition of a settlement freeze, and shocked everybody by revealing that Israel had turned down the offer.
No peace talks have taken place between the two sides since Israel cancelled the last settlement freeze in September 2010, and Israeli diplomats often make a big show of insisting that it is only the “Palestinian refusal” preventing such talks.
But officials say that the PA was willing to abandon the freeze demand if Israel made a show of good will by releasing 100 long-held prisoners. The offer came as a Quartet “deadline” nears for restarting talks, and Israeli officials are insisting that they don’t believe the offer was a sincere one.
The PA has denied predicating the talks on the release of the prisoners, saying they had “no preconditions” for such talks. Israeli officials are reportedly outraged that the Palestinians termed the effort aimed at “renewal” of the talks, and are demanding they call it a “resumption of negotiations” for some reason.
Surprise, Surprise.
Israel has never once been sincere about seeking peace with the Palestinians. The only sincerity that Israel has revealed is its determination that it shall have no defined borders with any Arab country. With the United States serving as its obedient puppet, Israel has no incentive to return any land captured from the Palestinians. Moreover, the entire world represented at the United Nations is aware of U.S. hypocritical obedience to Israel.
Jason, this is simple. Fatah backed itself in a corner in the past by giving up so much of palestinian rights in "negotiations". Now that Palestinians are pushing for unity and Hamas is involved they feel emboldened to push for additional concessions. So they are calling it a "renewal" (like starting over). The israelis want the same old dead end, we are in charge "Continuation of negotiations".
Wrong, Ashraf. Right comment but it doesn't apply this time. Ha'aretz reported yesterday that Abbas wanted a "peace" agreement and wasn't imposing any conditions, not even freezing of illegal settlements. At the same time, there was another headline reporting that the US had "unfrozen" so many millions of aid for the Palestinians. Can you say a pay off to Abbas? While in yet another headline, the Israeli government was announcing the building of another 130 illegal dwellings in the West Bank. So, that's the synopsis for this particular caption. Abbas sold out again and was willing to give away the kitchen sink to Israel in exchange for the mighty American bucks being thrown his way. This has been done before as The Palestine Papers showed.
False religions of this World broken covenant with God long ago, killed many prophets, messangers of God, rejecting calls for peace these days displayes for all to see "arogance" meaning rejecting Gods instruction. World opinion means absolutely nothing to these leaders of "underworld".Mamon and control of others unite this "Visiable satanic organizations on Earth", ignorance of mases redused to need to survive helps them in their dream of total conrol…NWO. This "shortcut" for "ruling the World" rejecting quadience from Almighty is road to Armagedon….
Who left the door open…sorry, couldn't resist.
Who? Who?
Not me, I swear. I closed it behind me when I left.
Israel has NO interest in peace:
“We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise solution. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism.” – General Yehoshafat Harkabi, Ma’ariv, 2 November 1973.
“The state of Israel must invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the methods of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.” — From the diary of Moshe Sharett, Israeli’s first Foreign Minister from 1948-1956, and Prime Minister from 1954-1956.
“We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.” – Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.
“Among ourselves, it must be clear that there is no place in the country for both peoples together. With the Arabs we shall not achieve our aim of being an independent people in this country. The only solution is Eretz-Israel, at least the west part of Eretz-Israel, without Arabs . . . And there is no other way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries. Transfer all of them, not one village or tribe should remain . . .” –Joseph Weitz, entry in his diary for 1940 (quoted in his article: ‘A solution to the Refugee Problem: An Israeli State with a small Arab Minority’, published in Davar, 29 September, 1967.
its the palestinians fault for not coming to the table first, …
they are to blame and only them. they dont want peace, they just want to be stateless and miserable forever. they want to live in open air prisons and concentration camps and be slowly exterminated like vermin.
the palestinians are clearly to blame
Wow, that didn't take long! Of course, before the official rejection, they made sure and pounded the living crap outta Gaza killing at least 10 more innocent civilians. But it's all in a day's work for the terrorist entity known as Isreal.
Israel just released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, many of them with blood on their hands, for ONE Israeli solder. They want 100 prisoners out now?